The people pictured below were some of the leading American advocates for human rights. Do you know them? To learn more about them, the Champlain Elementary School Learning Center has resources you can check out or borrow.
Primary Documents and Legislation:
Declaration of Independence: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Universal http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990, amended 2008): http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm
Titles available from the Champlain Elementary School Learning Center (resource list):
http://destiny.bsdvt.org/cataloging/servlet/handlebooklistform.do?restoreFromCrumb=1&tm=TopLevelCatalog&l2m=Resource+Lists&formSignature=&formName=cataloging_servlet_BookListForm&breadCrumbIndex=785
Online Resources available on the Library Page for Champlain Elementary School:
World Book Online: http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Login?ed=wb&tu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldbookonline.com%2Fwb%2Fproducts%3Fed%3Dall%26subacct%3DI0156&subacct=I0156
(username: champ; password: library)
Internet Resources:
Disability Rights: http://www.humanrights.gov/issues/disability-rights/
United for Human Rights: www.humanrights.com
United States site on Human Rights: http://www.humanrights.gov
National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org
Amnesty.org: www.amnesty.org
Human Rights Action Center, D.C.: www.humanrightsactioncenter.org
Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: www.naacp.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Conversations in Equity (blog): http://blogs.cdc.gov/healthequity/Presidential biographies: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
Children's Defense Fund: www.childrensdefense.org
United Nations Human Rights for the USA: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/ENACARegion/Pages/USIndex.aspx
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/ENACARegion/Pages/USIndex.aspx
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: www.unesco.org
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: www.unhcr.org
US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: www.state.gov
Famous Speeches:
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Eleanor Roosevelt: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/FlashDocuments/Eleanor%20Roosevelt%20%20The%20Stuggle%20for%20Human%20Rights.swf
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/eleanorrooseveltdeclarationhumanrights.htm
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
http://ia700201.us.archive.org/8/items/100-Best--Speeches/FDR19330304_64kb.mp3
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